All Blog Posts Tagged 'killing' - Atheist Nexus2015-08-02T20:04:46Zhttp://atheistnexus.org/profiles/blog/feed?tag=killing&xn_auth=noViolence Revisitedtag:atheistnexus.org,2013-12-31:2182797:BlogPost:23582442013-12-31T01:24:08.000ZDonald R Barberahttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/drbarbera
<p><b>Chickens Come Home to Roost</b></p>
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<p><em><span style="color: #000080; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Note: I wrote this piece in 2010 because of US involvement in constant war. I knew about many of the wars via the movies (World Wars I &amp; II, Korea). I was in the Army during Vietnam and witnessed several other US "interventions since then. This piece is only here because of one paragraph, which I highlighted in red. I will say up front that it took no…</span></em></p>
<p><b>Chickens Come Home to Roost</b></p>
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<p><em><span style="color: #000080; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Note: I wrote this piece in 2010 because of US involvement in constant war. I knew about many of the wars via the movies (World Wars I &amp; II, Korea). I was in the Army during Vietnam and witnessed several other US "interventions since then. This piece is only here because of one paragraph, which I highlighted in red. I will say up front that it took no genius to make such a prediction, but it just shows how normalized mass killing in the US have become.</span></em></p>
<p>Another school massacre, this time at Virginia Tech, brings focus on guns in America as the country reels trying to figure out what to do about Americans and their guns. Over the last five years, there have been more than 30 cases of shootings or planned shootings at American colleges and high schools. What happened at Virginia Tech University is simply a case of the “chickens coming home to roost,” as the late Malcolm X said when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Malcolm X, later killed in a hail of gunfire at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, meant that violence perpetuates itself from example. If gunfire settles disputes, then people will follow that illustration to resolve their own grievances, quarrels and perception of unfair treatment.</p>
<p>The list of people to blame is long and includes makers of violent movies, murderous video games, gangster rap and graphic news sources that regularly serve up enough mayhem to last a life time. Plus, our schools now act as combat zones for disgruntled students and teachers. The element of respect has disappeared and procuring a gun is nearly as easy as getting a cigarette.</p>
<p>That is just a beginning of the list of perpetrators, but the most important person hasn’t been mentioned because it is us. Everything mentioned here would go away if “we” said no. I am not so naïve to believe this could happen without a fight, because I’m talking about money. All of these mind-warping activities generate money and the people who make money from the sale of the products creating a mindless society will fight back.</p>
<p>Violence is a way of life in the United States. Since I was born, war remains constant. Since 1946, the United States goes to war or is in a conflict every 3.2 years. Not counting the Cold War, the United States remained stuck in war for nearly 30 years on just two conflicts. The following represents an abbreviated list of US wars and conflicts since the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century: The Cold War, The Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Lebanon Intervention, the Dominican Republic Intervention, the Libyan Conflict, another Lebanon intervention, the Invasion of Grenada, The Tanker War, Invasion of Panama, Persian Gulf War, No-Fly Zone War, Intervention in Somalia, Operation Deliberate Force (Bosnia), Occupation of Haiti, Desert Fox, Kosovo War, and the War on Terrorism and Operation Iraqi Freedom which only recently ended. </p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Sadly, what happened in Virginia will happen again and again, if voices are not raised to do something about it. Unfortunately, after seeing the changes that took place after the Columbine massacre, I expect to witness another mass killing at another school and once again there will be a great furor but nothing will be done about it because the influences that cause these outbreaks are everywhere and there is too much money being made by suppliers. My heart goes out to all of Virginia Tech University, the professors, students and especially the families.</em></span></strong></p>
<p>Since 1914, the United States fought in 10 different wars, interventions or police actions. In those 94 years, the country has spent 36 years fighting or a third of its time involved in war. I bring this out not to criticize the United States, but to show that violence is all around us. More importantly, it is plain that the highest level of authority in this country has no problem using violence to solve problems. Of course, this information does absolutely nothing for the parents, relatives and friends who died at Virginia Tech, but to those who never faced such a situation, it is a reminder of the world we live in, that we call normal.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the legislature is still trying to figure out what happened. Of course, that is part of the problem; whenever something like this happens cowardice overcomes Washington as incumbents worry about who finances their campaigns and who they might piss off instead of doing the right thing. However, as much as I despise Congress, as Americans, we can’t expect Congress to grow cojones overnight.</p>
<p>The other reason we can’t blame all of it on Congress is because we are the other part of the problem. So, if we must look for a change, perhaps it is time to look at our own life styles that promote impersonal conduct, elevate brutal behavior and that glorify the ends justifying the means. It is there we can make a change. It is all of us or none. If it be none, then it is time that we start making plans for the next massacre because it will only be a matter of time before the chickens come home to roost—again.</p>
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<table border="1" cellspacing="0">
<tbody><tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center"><b>Engagements</b></p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center"><b>Dates</b></p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center"><b>Killed</b></p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center"><b>Wounded</b></p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center"><b>Years</b></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Boxer Rebellion</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1900-1901</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">37</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">204</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">World War I</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1914-1918</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">53,402</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">204,002</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">4</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Mexican Revolution</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1914-1919</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">35</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">70</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">5</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Occupation of Haiti</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1915-1934</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">146</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">26 </p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">19</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Northern Russia Expedition</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1918-1920</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">2</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">424</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">2</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center"><span>Occupation of Nicaragua</span></p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1927-1933</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">48</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">68</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">6</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">World War II</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1939-1945</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">291,557</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">671,846</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">6</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Berlin Blockade</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1948-1949</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">0</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">0</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Korean War</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1950-1953</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">33,741</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">103,284</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">3</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Vietnam War</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1960-1975</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center"> 47,424</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">153,303</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">15</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Bay of Pigs Invasion</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1961-1962</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">0</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">0</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Invasion of Dominican Republic</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1965-1966</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">0</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">200</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">El Salvador Civil War</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1980-1992</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">20</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">35</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">12</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Invasion of Grenada</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1983-1983</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">19</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">119</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Beirut Deployment</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1982-1984</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">266</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">169</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">2</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Persian Gulf Escorts</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1987-1988</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">39</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">31</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Invasion of Panama</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1989-1990</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">40</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">324</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Persian Gulf War</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1990-1991</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">299</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">467</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Somalia</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1993-1994</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">43</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">153</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Haiti</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1994-1995</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">0</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">4</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">1</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1995-2004</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">267</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">2,340</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">9</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Kosovo</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">1999-2008</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">19</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">20</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">9</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Afghanistan</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">2001-2013</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">557</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">2,291</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">12</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td width="288" valign="top"><p align="center">Invasion of Iraq</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">2003-2011</p>
</td>
<td width="84" valign="top"><p align="center">6,128</p>
</td>
<td width="108" valign="top"><p align="center">35,324</p>
</td>
<td width="72" valign="top"><p align="center">8</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<p><b>Deaths 434,089</b> <b>-- Wounded 1,174,704</b></p>
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<p><b>121 Years of War</b></p>
<p>13 Years Between Boxer rebellion and World War I</p>
<ol>
<li>1900—1901 to 1914—13 Years</li>
<li>1914—1918</li>
<li>1914—1919</li>
<li>1915—1934 to 1939—5 Years</li>
<li>1918—1920</li>
<li>1927—1933</li>
<li>1939—1945 to 1948—3 Years</li>
<li>1948—1949</li>
<li>1950—1953 to 1960—7 Years</li>
<li>1960—1975 to 1980—5 Years</li>
<li>1961</li>
<li>1965—1966</li>
<li>1980—1992</li>
<li>1983</li>
<li>1982—1984</li>
<li>1987—1988</li>
<li>1989</li>
<li>1990—1991</li>
<li>1993—1993 to 1995—2 Years</li>
<li>1995</li>
<li>1995—2004</li>
<li>1999—2008</li>
<li>2001—2008</li>
<li>2003—2008</li>
</ol>
<p>Only 35 years in the past 112, has the United States not been involved in some military action, with the longest period of no military conflict, 13 years, coming almost a hundred years ago between 1901 and 1914. The second slowest period of seven years came between the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts. During that period, nearly a half million, 431,820, US soldiers died and more than a million, 1,167,364, military men and women received wounds. The United States spent a cumulative time of 121 years either fighting or occupying in military actions around the world in military actions that often overlapped.</p>Tunnel Vision is 20/20tag:atheistnexus.org,2011-08-29:2182797:BlogPost:15881272011-08-29T16:21:23.000ZDonald R Barberahttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/drbarbera
<p>When it comes to morals it seems that Christians never get above the belt-buckle unless it is to peer behind a brassiere. Genes for sexual obsession passed down from the Catholic Church evidently have not mutated over the centuries as Christian leaders remain overly concerned with who's doing who, how they are doing it and if there are any naked people or pictures anywhere near.</p>
<p>To be sure there is a need for watchdog organizations and laws keeping dangerous sexual predators, perverts…</p>
<p>When it comes to morals it seems that Christians never get above the belt-buckle unless it is to peer behind a brassiere. Genes for sexual obsession passed down from the Catholic Church evidently have not mutated over the centuries as Christian leaders remain overly concerned with who's doing who, how they are doing it and if there are any naked people or pictures anywhere near.</p>
<p>To be sure there is a need for watchdog organizations and laws keeping dangerous sexual predators, perverts and traffickers out of civilized society, but that is a job for civil authorities, not antediluvian religious opinionizers attempting to transport the US back to the Dark Ages. There is no Lasik’s Surgery for this type of tunnel-vision, nor is there any escape from the ubiquitous voices ignorance embraced by so many in this country.</p>
<p>While the Religious Right hunts snipe and the answer to who is in Grant's tomb, people die on American streets everyday of starvation, hundreds of thousands of human beings died and are dying in unsanctioned wars, capital punishment continues despite its ineffectiveness as a crime deterrent and torture is an on-going concern. The unimportance of other's lives is demonstrated in national polls by the PEW Research Center and Gallup among others, showing that majorities of Christians support all of these life-taking actions, with the exception of starvation although they are in favor of ending social programs that could help.</p>
<p>For large portions of those Christians espousing family values and pro-life stances when it comes to abortion, the listing of killing activities negates any true concern for human life, but their blindness to killing breathing people is just a floater in their moral tunnel-vision. Morals go far past killing and sex; lying and cheating are major reasons for the American financial meltdown of 2008, yet those responsible for the fiasco still walk around free while millions of Americans lose their homes, which they can't pay for because they have no jobs. Empathy and sympathy, two sides of the same coin are metal slugs of which the Religious Right seems unaware.</p>
<p>Racism and sexism slid off the radar screen for fundamentalist and evangelical Christians with their first reading of the Bible which not only sanctions slavery, but delineates how it should be conducted. Even in Braille, the unsighted could see that women in the Bible barely make it to the status of doormats. For a thinking Christian, the blatant mistreatment outlined in the Bible should cause serious cognitive dissonance when matched against today's world except for the opaqueness of Golgotha lenses.</p>
<p>The list of moral imperatives could easily fill this page with subjects like honesty, integrity, character, concern, cheating, plagiarizing, stealing, rape, taking advantage, lying by omission, pettiness, gossip, negativism, unwarranted destruction, unfairness, hate, love, meanness and much more. Yet, of all the things the Religious Right could be concerned with the number one item on the list is—sex related.</p>
<p>Sex is important to human procreation, loving relationships as well as understanding ourselves, but to the fundamentalist Christian, it is a dirty necessity not fit for day light. Over the centuries, Christianity singled-handedly made trafficking in prostitutes, pornography, strip shows and other adult entertainment profitable, thus the failure to kill it when they keep resurrecting the beast, dressing it in the clothes of vice, thus making it even more attractive.</p>
<p>Fortunately, 2011 is not 1500 and thanks to education people are no longer bewildered by everything that happens, which for Christianity has become a problem as an educated populace is no longer completely gullible to appeals from a 2,000 year-old book. For Christianity the result of failure to adapt to the world is now beginning to turn people away.</p>
<p>The Bible has been a perennial best seller for ages and many try to follow its sometimes contradictory guidelines, but people have started to reach the point where they ask themselves if they would want their mechanic, lawyer or surgeon following directions from a 2,000-year-old book?</p>
<p>Don B</p>Churches denounce children as 'witches'; 1000s of kids maimed and killedtag:atheistnexus.org,2009-10-28:2182797:BlogPost:5746952009-10-28T23:31:10.000ZIAmTheBloghttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/IAmTheBlog
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33355518/displaymode/1176/rstry/33356826/" id="linkImgRelatedPhotos" name="linkImgRelatedPhotos"><img alt="Image: Accused child witches in Nigeria" border="0" height="164" hspace="0" src="http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/ap/a1bb6735-1c0f-40f8-b77f-af67db797549.hmedium.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" title="Image: Accused child witches in Nigeria" vspace="0" width="246"></img></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Accused child witches Jane, left, and Mary, right [...] Jane's mother tried to saw off the top of her skull after a pastor denounced her and Mary."…</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a id="linkImgRelatedPhotos" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33355518/displaymode/1176/rstry/33356826/" name="linkImgRelatedPhotos"><img style="border: 1px solid #000000;" title="Image: Accused child witches in Nigeria" src="http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/ap/a1bb6735-1c0f-40f8-b77f-af67db797549.hmedium.jpg" border="0" alt="Image: Accused child witches in Nigeria" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="246" height="164"/></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"Accused child witches Jane, left, and Mary, right [...] Jane's mother tried to saw off the top of her skull after a pastor denounced her and Mary." <a id="linkImgRelatedPhotos" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33355518/displaymode/1176/rstry/33356826/" name="linkImgRelatedPhotos">Source : AP, MSNBC</a></em><a id="linkImgRelatedPhotos" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33355518/displaymode/1176/rstry/33356826/" name="linkImgRelatedPhotos"></a></p>
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With Halloween just around the corner, many kids in the US will soon be joyfully donning witch costumes and visiting haunted houses at their local churches. In many parts of Africa, however, the subject of witches at church is no laughing matter.<br />
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MSNBC reports that, according to an <a title="MSNBC" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33356826/ns/world_news-africa/">investigation by the Associated Press</a>, an increasing number of children are being maimed or killed because churches are accusing them of witchcraft. According to MSNBC,<br />
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<em><strong>"Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of "witch children" reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files."</strong></em><br />
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Unfortunately, this isn't limited to a couple hundred cases. Over the last ten years, in just two states in Nigeria,<br />
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<em><strong>"around 15,000 children have been accused [of witchcraft] and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire."</strong></em><br />
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In many cases, the churches involved are affiliated with churches in the US, who defend themselves by saying that they are unaware of what's going on. And more local churches are reportedly turning to the practicing of finding witches because it is profitable to them. According to a member of the <a title="Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Network" href="http://crarn.tripod.com/">Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Network</a>,<br />
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<em><strong>"Even churches who didn't use to 'find' child witches are being forced into it by the competition. They are seen as spiritually powerful because they can detect witchcraft and the parents may even pay them money for an exorcism."</strong></em><br />
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So if anything, the situation seems to have worsened since I last <a title="I Am The Blog" href="http://iamtheblog.com/wordpress2/?p=770">posted about</a> a couple of months ago. It's good that this crisis is starting to get into the public light a little more, but that isn't enough since at least some of these people believe they are doing what God wants them to. Churches in the US, whether directly linked to the congregations that are conducting these literal witch hunts, or just sending missionaries over to Africa, need to spread the message that witch burning and mutilation is not okay.<br />
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My hunch is that some church leaders may be shying away from a public campaign against these horrible attacks on children because the Bible actually does say that <a title="Bible Gateway" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+22%3A18&amp;version=KJV">witches shouldn't be allowed to live</a>. (Unfortunately for these children, it doesn't say how to tell when someone is or isn't a witch.) I would think it's hard for Christians to tell people to disregard something that is right there in the Bible, without worrying about throwing the whole thing into question. But with thousands of children suffering and dying, I don't know how they can remain silent.<br />
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Originally posted on <a href="http://iamtheblog.com/wordpress2/" target="_blank">http://iamtheblog.com</a>